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Full Circle – The Drive Back To Kelowna

Full Circle – The Drive Back To Kelowna

Next month it will have been two years since we drove the van out our driveway knowing only we were headed for Australia- we managed that just fine and had an absolutely amazing 14 months there. A total bonus was getting to ship our van up through North East Asia on...

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Japan: Shipping To North America

Japan: Shipping To North America

Hello readers ! Been quite a while since our last post, but, as you will read later in this edition, we had a little, umm, shall we say, “setback” just after we flew out of Japan that very materially delayed getting our van back to North America - but more on that...

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Tokyo, And Our Last Days In Japan

Tokyo, And Our Last Days In Japan

Positioning ourselves for a few days in downtown Tokyo first meant finding a secure and affordable place to store the rig while we “hoteled” it in the city itself. That, we managed to find out towards Narita ( home of Tokyo’s international airport), convenient also...

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Hakone and The Izu Peninsula

Hakone and The Izu Peninsula

Having completed a detour around Tokyo when coming down from Nikko, only a couple of places of personal interest remained before we essentially called “time” on our Japan travels and focused our remaining time on getting the campervan booked on a ship out. That would...

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Nikko To Mount Fuji

Nikko To Mount Fuji

Following what had been an interesting previous week, albeit travelling through a less notable area of the country, this last week took us to two of Japan’s finest (and arguably most famous), sights - historic and stunningly beautiful Nikko, followed by that most...

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Leaving Hokkaido: To Northern Honshu

Leaving Hokkaido: To Northern Honshu

Just the south western corner of Hokkaido remained in our travel plans here and while our expectations for this area were muted, as often happens there were some very pleasant surprises - some even quite quirky ! This was the route that took us back to Hakodate and...

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Jeff + Lois

Jeff + Lois

The PanAm completed in April, 2022 and with the truck camper sold, we shipped our new Sprinter van to Australia in late 2022. We travelled there through all of 2023 and into 2024 before shipping it up to North East Asia where we travelled for 4 months between Korea and Japan, before shipping it back to North America. It’s our plan to continue exploring the world in 2025.

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